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Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
"Tough On Crime" Law Increases Michigan Crime Rates by Despite the increased use of prison as a criminal sanction, nearly every category of violent crime rose from 1981 to 1991. In the past decade, Michigan's legislature has passed many "tough on crime" laws and quadrupled the state's corrections budget, according …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Court Declines to Define "Frivolous" Suits by Anthony Brown is a Maryland state prisoner. After telling prison medical staff he had already been vaccinated, he was given another tuberculosis inoculation and broke out in a rash. Brown filed suit under §<%0> 1983 claiming that the vaccination violated his eighth amendment …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
WA State DOC &quot;Work Ethic&quot; Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme? by PLG WA State DOC "Work Ethic" Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme? By P. L. G. During the last session of the Washington State legislature, there was a bill passed mandating that DOC implement …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by La Patria Radical is a bi-lingual (English and Spanish) tabloid published by the MLN (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, a Puerto Rican independence party). Each issue provides information about the Puerto Rican independence movement, community activism, government repression of the movement and updates on the numerous Puerto Rican political …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Materials on Prison Rape Survival Available by The Safer Society Program has recently produced and published a series of audio tapes made by ex-prisoners specifically for men confined in jails and prisons. Rape in prison is an important issue that has received all too little attention due to the stigmas …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Weed and Seed: The Fortress Culture by Christian Parenti America's inner cities are being militarized. And Operation Weed and Seed, initiated in 1991 by the Bush administration in order to subordinate social spending to the agenda of the Justice Department, lies at the heart of the assault. Michael Zinzun of …
Discipline For Rude Letter Struck Down by Lobester Loggins is a Missouri State prisoner. In 1989 he sent his brother a letter. Pursuant to prison policy a prison mail clerk opened and read the letter, which stated in part that "there's a beetle eyed bitch back here who enjoys reading …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Only One Appeal on Qualified Immunity by Only One Appeal On Qualified Immunity This case involves a taxpayer suing an IRS agent claiming her constitutional rights were violated when the agent garnished her wages and seized her house, even though he knew she owed no taxes. While this is not …
Death Row Prisoners Entitled to Limited Contact Attorney Visits by This case involves a class action suit filed by Oklahoma death row prisoners and prisoners in the control unit of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The case provides a revealing look at the mentality driving the construction of control units. The …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Dime Down by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne The lockdown at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, is now a decade old. The magnitude of the decades in human experience is obvious in the marking of cultural epochs--the sixties, the fifties, the eighties. It even emerges in popular music as …
Disastrous Conditions in Vermont Prisons by Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project who have just visited four Vermont Prisons announced today that they plan to extend and deepen their investigation into unconstitutional prison conditions there. Attorney Edward Koren, team member and veteran litigator in major prison …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Well, at long last here I am writing my very first editorial from the streets! Regular PLN readers will remember that some month ago I initiated a campaign to get myself free. For reasons I still don't quite understand, I am …
Langford v. Bullock, MT, Fifth Amended Complaint, ADA Compliance, 1993 t Langford v. Racicot PC-MT-001-001 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "lark J. Lopez idward I. Koren National Prison Project the American Civil Liberties Jnion Foundation L875 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009 Telephone: 202/234-4830 Edmund F. Sheehy, …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
Lucasville: A Brief History by John Perotti By John Perotti The pinnacle of the prisoners' rights movement had about reached its peak when I arrived at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio, in 1977. I had been transferred from the Ohio State Reformatory (OSR) in Mansfield, Ohio, …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
Ex Post Facto Conflict Within Ninth Circuit by In the October PLN we reported on the case of Powell v. DuCharme , 998 F.2d 710 (9th Cir. 1993) in which a panel of the ninth circuit court of appeals held that the ex post facto clause was not violated by …
Gender Based Treatment Disparity Violates Equal Protection by Ed Mead If you are a woman and you break the law in Nebraska, and if you are required to serve a prison sentence, you will be sent to the Nebraska Center for Women (NCW). NCW is located in York, a small …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
No Right to Unmonitored Mail to Media, Clergy by Astate prison regulation that requires inspection of outgoing mail directed to members of the media and the clergy does not violate inmates' first amendment rights, a majority of the U.S. court of appeals for the eighth circuit recently held. The majority …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
Riot Hits FCI Sheridan by On Sep. 2, 1993, a riot broke out at the overcrowded FCI in Sheridan, OR. According to a report in The Columbian , of Sep. 3, 1993, an office building at the four year old medium security prison was burned to the ground after 20 …
A Bunch of Scumbags by Adrian Lomax By Adrian Lomax Awhile back a friend wrote in her letter to me that, as she was writing, her son walked into the room and asked what she was doing. Upon hearing her answer, the son said, "Those guys in prison are a …
Prosecutorial Liability Explained by Stephen Buckley sought damages, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, from prosecutors for fabricating evidence during the preliminary investigation of a highly publicized rape and murder case in Illinois, and form making false statements as a press conference announcing the return of an indictment against him. He …
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